Somos diferentes de você?

ARE WE DIFFERENT FROM YOU? Am I a person? Am I a human being?

Do you see me as somebody different? Maybe have you forgotten me? Or maybe I am invisible?

Do I take part of this society? Who I am, for you? Remember.

I am a human, just like you! I am somebody. I am here.

We are from all over Brazil and all over the world. We are everywhere and sometimes you do not even notice. Each one writing our own stories and learning new things.

Having their own experiences e gaining knowledge. We are individuals like you and like anybody else. And just like you all, we have our different personalities.

We feel happy, We feel sad, We fall in love, We have fun, We have fear, We hate, We fell angry, We suffer, We feel lonely, We have feelings We live in a community, we have our own culture and habits, dealing with our identity. We are deaf. We are deaf!

We don´t talk using gestures or mimics. We are not only people who communicate through hands, we are much more than that. Libras is my language.

My language. Libras is our language, it is not a joke. Why it would be?

People may think Libras is a joke, but it is not. It has a past, a struggle, back in the past when the deaf people had their hands tied and they were forced to speak orally, punished with candlestick as they used their hands to talk. But today things are different, we had overcome some obstacles.

We have the right to use Libras and this is our main goal. And now we want our place. We have our culture and our identity.

But we still need to fight for our place in society, because we want to take part of it as well. We want to access information, entertainment and get the culture sources. We want to know what is happening in the world and to show our own.

We want a future that we are all the same, with no differences or prejudices. Above all, we are all humans, we are the same. We want to keep our language, our history, our values.

The world needs more love. Show your love and receive it back. Only this way we can make it be a peaceful place with respect and equality.

Love change everything. I want a better future. The World needs more empathy.

Imagine what if all in the World were deaf? Think about it. Reflect.